Quotes About Dependence

His old man, who'd smoked like he did, had spent the last five years of his life in a little cart sucking on a tank, until he'd done the big face-plant just a month before his sixtieth birthday.

Wolves are social. They need their pack.

So it is also that in the act of knowing, to the extent that we know something truly, we know it as created, that is, as having its origin and its sustaining existence in God. 7 To claim to know something while thinking it to be independent of God (or to deny that there is a God) is to fail to know it for what it really is. Whatever it is, it is created and sustained by God at every moment.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

He reminded MacLeish of the "profound part that culture and society play in the very definition of human values, human salvation and liberation." Therefore, "I think that what is needed is something far subtler than the emancipation of the individual from society; it involves, with an awareness that the past one hundred and fifty years have rendered progressively more acute, the basic dependence of man on his fellows.

The purpose of the creation doctrine, then, is not to ascribe a chronological starting-point to the world, but to affirm that at this present moment, as at all moments, the world depends for its existence upon God. When

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off

To depend on the protection of another man is to be his slave, to protect other folk is to be the slave of your own emotions.

Two individuals who need each other will only have conflict. They can never have a relationship.

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

It would not be fair to choose one between them, as I am equally addicted to both the iPad and the Blackberry. In fact, there are times when I am simply hooked to both.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

I feel like part of me will die when John Goodman dies.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

As capitalism matured, he predicted, we would see periodic recessions, an ever-growing dependence on technology and the growth of huge, quasi-monopolistic corporations, spreading their sticky tentacles all over the world in search of new markets to exploit.